Definitions for measles

measles mea·sles

Spelling: [mee-zuh lz]
IPA: /ˈmi zəlz/

Measles is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 159 anagrams from letters in measles (aeelmss).

Definitions for measles

noun

  1. (used with a singular or plural verb) Pathology. an acute infectious disease occurring mostly in children, characterized by catarrhal and febrile symptoms and an eruption of small red spots; rubeola. any of certain other eruptive diseases. Compare German measles.
  2. Veterinary Pathology. a disease in swine and other animals caused by the larvae of certain tapeworms of the genus Taenia.
  3. (used with a plural verb) the larvae that cause measles in swine and other animals, and that upon maturation produce trichinosis in humans.

Origin of measles

1275-1325; Middle English mesels, variant of maseles (plural); cognate with Dutch maselen (plural), Middle Dutch masel; akin to German Masern measles, plural of Maser speck

Examples for measles

When I was about twenty, I guess, and laid up with the measles.

Samuel is as susceptible to pretty girls as children are to the measles.

But there are some things you get without buyin'—the measles, for instance.

So the new inhaled powder measles vaccine may in a few years turn out to be an easier way to protect kids from measles.

Meanwhile, the last outbreak of measles in Mississippi was reported in 1992, according to the state department of health.

It cheered him in the measles, it comforted him in the mumps.

I've got him in another barn; that stuff's as catchin' as measles.

This year was a record one for measles in the U.S., with 18 outbreaks, and almost 600 cases reported in 22 states in 2014.

From 1962-1965, there was a worldwide epidemic of rubella, the so-called “German measles.”

A powdered form of the measles vaccine could make delivery safer and easier around the world.

Word Value for measles
Scrable

9

Words with friends

11

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